| 2:28pm | Nodame Cantabile - Paris Hen Review - 82,5/100 | | | | Well, it’s not fun to be harsh against a series that I originally fell in love with, but I have to be honest: The Paris Chapters of Nodame Cantabile are not as good as the original Nodame Cantabile series. It’s still a fun and engaging series, but in the end it didn’t live up to... | | |
| 11:27pm | Nodame Cantabile: Paris Sequel Scheduled For Fall 2009 | | | | Fans of the ongoing Nodame Cantabile: Paris anime series will be happy to know that the sequel has been given the green-light for production and is scheduled to be aired in Fall 2009. This piece of news will be announced in the January issue of Animage, which goes on sale today. Source: 2ch via ANN... | | |
| 9:15am | 「Nodame Cantabile」 theatrical feature announcement | | | | Biweekly Kiss magazine will announce tomorrow that Nodame Cantabile will be getting two theatrical anime releases right after the already announced third TV anime season. The first one will be released at the beginning of 2010, and the second one in the following Spring. EDIT: MOON PHASE later edited... | | |
| 4:43am | [Ascaloth/Akira] Nodame Cantabile ~Paris Chapter~, Episode 8 | | | | Well played, J.C. Staff, you managed to troll me by inserting The Sorcerer’s Apprentice into the episode right after the one where I lamented the absence of it. In any case, just like the eponymous apprentice, Chiaki realizes that he’s become overconfident of his own abilities, and the washout... | | |
| 5:54pm | Nodame Cantabile Paris Chapter Leçon 2 | | | | Whoa! Yet another very late review (blame procrastination for that). But never mind that, given that I’m having my semester break now, I have lots to catch up. First up, Nodame Cantabile Paris!Synopsis: Nodame joins Frank to his hometown to celebrate an anime festival while Chiaki sets out his... | | |
| 1:50pm | [Ascaloth/Akira] Nodame Cantabile ~Paris Chapter~, Episode 7 | | | | When a new female character of some significance enters the plot, and threatens to pose some serious competition to the female lead in matters of romance, what is a guy to do to avoid the Harem Male Lead label that befalls so many unassuming male characters? Why, snub the both of them to concentrate... | | |
| 3:55am | Nodame Cantabile: Paris Chapter: Nodame “MUKYA” Kick | | | | Nodame is full of surprises. Or else, this is just the power of love. At any rate, Nodame spin-kick was amazing. I wasn’t quite aware how I’d missed the classical-music antics of Nodame and Chiaki until I started up the second season last night (after a suitably moving re-watching of Toki... | | |
| 9:25pm | Nodame Cantabile Paris-hen #03-06: Redemption | | | | If you were not aware of it, I had frowned upon the pacing of the 2nd episode of Nodame Cantabile Paris-hen and was pondering over whether the show itself was worth an episodic blog treatment. Surely I would still watch the show for my love of classical music and Nodame’s antics, but whether... | | |
| 2:49pm | [Ascaloth/Akira] Nodame Cantabile ~Paris Chapter~, Episode 6 | | | | At the beginning of the Nodame Cantabile story, Chiaki Shinichi started off as a piano major in a Japanese conservatory, only managing to become the conducting student of a Maestro through a combination of hard work and luck. Much has happened since then, and in that time, Chiaki has come very far indeed.or... | | |
| 3:39pm | [Ascaloth/Akira] Nodame Cantabile ~Paris Chapter~, Episode 5 | | | | The question of Chiaki’s apparently absent father is something that has not been touched on in very much detail in the first season of Nodame Cantabile, and it is only in the Paris Arc that this particular thread of the guy’s character development really starts getting fleshed out in greater... | | |
| 12:38am | What I watched recently | | | | Chaos;Head – 06 Paranoia layered upon more paranoia; the plot thickens. Who is a friend and who is a foe? Who can Taku really trust? What is real and what is a delusion? Is there more than one reality? Rimi seems to way too sweet, and Taku’s sudden need to be close to her seems like... | | |
| 1:06am | What I watched recently | | | | Clannad After Story – 03 Nothing but a web of lies, eh? First the fake girlfriend, and now Okazaki as the fake brother. I’m looking forward to his showdown with Sunohara next episode. It’s nice to have a little break from the usual “Okazaki messing with the twit Sunohara just... | | |
| 6:37am | [Ascaloth/Akira] Nodame Cantabile ~Paris Chapter~, Episode 4 | | | | Sometimes, one can get so used to the status quo, irritating as it may be at times, that the sudden removal of that very status quo could suddenly leave one very disorientated. Even though the return to how things used to be might be positive on the surface, one could still feel like he or she is missing... | | |
| 4:31am | [Ascaloth/Akira] Nodame Cantabile ~Paris Chapter~, Episode 3 | | | | Episode 3 marks the return of everybody’s favourite perverted Maestro Franz von Stresemann to the fray, much to the delight of many who considered him the source of most of last season’s comedic moments. And with the Platini Conductor Competition over, things are just getting started in... | | |
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